cvsservice5 command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

cvsservice5: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cvsservice5: command not found

Solutions to cvsservice5: command not found

How To Fix cvsservice5: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cvsservice5 is provided by cvsservice package.

cvsservice is:

This package provides a D-Bus service for browsing and manipulating remote CVS repositories. Applications may make use of it directly from C++, or access the service over D-Bus.

This package is part of the KDE Software Development Kit module.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install cvsservice

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install cvsservice.

sudo apt -y install cvsservice

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install cvsservice

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cvsservice5 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.